Three years later, he moved to Santa Monica. He also started selling crosswords to various puzzle magazines.
MERLE REAGLE BEST CROSSWORDS MOVIE
In 1975 he moved to San Francisco, where he managed the old El Rey movie theater on Ocean Avenue, and started writing scripts to sell to Hollywood movie studios. He got his newspaper start as a copy editor for the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. He graduated from Catalina High School and the University of Arizona, where he majored in English with an emphasis on creative writing. Reagle was moved by his mother to Tucson when he was 12, along with his younger brother, Sam. Reagle said he designed his first word puzzle in first grade, based on the names of his classmates. In an interview that appeared in the Los Angeles Times in 2009, Mr. His father, Sam, was a truck driver, and his mother, Evelyn, was a nurse. He couldn’t walk down the street without finding puzzles in street signs.” Reagle’s Sunday crossword for the Examiner’s magazine in the 1990s. “He had the quickest mind I have ever come across,” said Michael Gray, who edited Mr. He not only constructed the puzzles, but he also constructed a puzzle of newspapers that carried them. Reagle was the most widely self-syndicated puzzle creator in newspaper history. “Merl’s puzzles were funnier than anyone else’s, and it was important to him that the humor be real-world humor,” said Shortz, who believes Mr.
Reagle was such a force in the word game industry that he was once featured as an animated character on “The Simpsons” and was a subject of the 2006 documentary “Wordplay,” in tandem with Shortz. Reagle created an original crossword every week for the Examiner, then The Chronicle after the two papers merged in 2000.
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